Time is a brutal enemy of youth and exuberance. Time makes cynics of us all.
Time is the universal truth serum that reveals all authenticity. Time will
tell, but the announcement yesterday by Google may change the faces of AJAX
development, strike that, Google's announcement may change web development
for evermore. This cynic heard an announcement yesterday that changed his
viewpoint and beliefs on the future of web development.
Certainly, in the recent past, the chances of doing an entire application in
AJAX seemed remote for the vast sea of developers. The thought of writing a
rich application in JavaScript, for most developers, is total anathema - akin
to having one's body shaved and thrust into a pool of warm alcohol.
Please don’t write and plead for a change in ... (more)
Part 4 of a series discussing the many languages that compile and/or run on
the Java platform
Do you remember the operating system religious wars? Mac OS versus Windows,
Windows NT versus UNIX, OS/2 versus Windows NT. Or how about the text editor
wars VI versus Emacs? It may seem silly for programmers to become involved
so passionately with the technology they work with, but if you spen... (more)
Developing distributed components with Java and DCOM (distributed component
object model) simplifies developing distributed applications. If you know
CORBA or RMI, DCOM is easy to learn. Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine makes
developing COM and DCOM components painless.
DCOM currently ships with the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98
operating systems. It's also available for download... (more)
Back before Java became popular, I was a C++ bigot. I programmed in nothing
but C++. I lived, ate and breathed C++. If it wasn't C++, it was rubbish. I
thought C++ was the alpha and omega of object-oriented programming. I had
"operator overloading" for breakfast, "templates" for lunch and "multiple
inheritance" for dinner, and I always went back for seconds.
Then a funny thing happened. I... (more)
What This Series Is About
This article is Part 3 of an interactive series that discusses the many
languages that compile and/or run on the Java platform. Java Developer's
Journal invites you to vote for your favorite non-Java programming language
in the JDJ forum. Your vote will decide which languages will be covered by
the series, and in what order. A lot of languages work in the JVM, but... (more)
Rick Hightower serves as chief technology officer for ArcMind Inc. He is coauthor of the popular book Java Tools for Extreme Programming, which covers applying XP to J2EE development, and also recently co-authored Professional Struts. He has been working with J2EE since the very early days and lately has been working mostly with Maven, Spring, JSF and Hibernate. Rick is a big JSF and Spring fan. Rick has taught several workshops and training courses involving the Spring framework as well as worked on several projects consulting, mentoring and developing with the Spring framework. He blogs at http://jroller.com/page/RickHigh.
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